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title: The king was an avid patron of the arts, and scientists and cultural… — Stockholm · tree and pragmatics
description: The king was an avid patron of the arts, and scientists and cultural figures flocked to Stockholm on a scale unprecedented since the reign of Queen Christina. Who acts: king, scientists. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Stockholm» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Stockholm, sentence 59

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From Wikipedia, [«Stockholm»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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The king was an avid patron of the arts, and scientists and cultural figures flocked to Stockholm on a scale unprecedented since the reign of Queen Christina.

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**Who acts:** king, scientists · **What happens:** be, flock · **To what, where:** avid patron, Stockholm, scale

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Stockholm». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, scientists), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Stockholm:59
# text = The king was an avid patron of the arts, and scientists and cultural figures flocked to Stockholm on a scale unprecedented since the reign of Queen Christina.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	avid	avid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	patron	patron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	arts	art	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	cultural	cultural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	figures	figure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
16	flocked	flock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Stockholm	Stockholm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	scale	scale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	unprecedented	unprecedented	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
23	since	since	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	reign	reign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	Christina	Christina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the king | a avid patron |  |  |  | of the arts | tree rules |
| 2 | **flock** | past | scientists and cultural figures |  | Stockholm | a scale |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Stockholm», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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